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Immediately after switching to Kf5, Kile was one of the few applications which just did the right thing. However, I just rebooted and now I have the following problem.
If I open Settings > Configure Kile, initially all may be well. The dialog is sized in a reasonable way.
If I switch to a panel which contains too much information to fit vertically on my screen without scrolling, however, the dialog is resized to fit the content. At this point, I can no longer access things like the 'OK' or 'Cancel' buttons. Moreover, switching back to the original panel does not resize the dialog. So I can't switch back to 'Edit' say and 'OK' from there.
I'm not sure if this is related, but Kile also has a somewhat different look. The Files & Projects side-panel has items a lot more spaced out.
The main window is not affected by the too-tall problem.
I have tried using the Window Settings in Plasma to adapt the rules I'm using for Kile. I did have this set so that the main Kile window would be maximised vertically. I tried unsetting this. I also tried explicitly specifying the size for all other Kile windows and dialogs, telling them to obey geometry restrictions, telling them to maximise vertically etc. I've also tried manually changing the size of a particular instance of the dialog using the window menu and 'change size'. I get the little arrow thing to change the window size, but I cannot make it less tall. I also cannot make it less thin although I can make it wider. I can't grab the bottom of the dialog in the normal way to resize it as it is off the screen.
Apparently, something I've changed or some update or installation has caused this. At least, I assume. However, the transition to Kf5 means I've been fiddling quite a lot, so it is hard to pinpoint the problem.
Updates which might be related from today: xorg-server, xorg-server-common (but I am assuming this is a KDE problem).
More likely culprits seem to be the installation a couple of days ago of: breeze-kde4 oxygen-kde4
I thought these would improve compatiblity with KDE4-based applications, but perhaps I've misunderstood their purpose?
EDIT: There is a workaround. If you use the window menu and choose 'special window settings' (rather than setting a rule), setting the size explicitly with 'force' immediately resizes the dialog to the specified size and you can access the buttons needed to save configuration changes.
Obviously not a solution - something is wrong with my setup or with the software - but definitely better than just being 'stuck'!
Last edited by cfr (2015-02-15 23:02:08)
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The too-tall button issue is actually by design, meaning that the breeze theme is designed to have a lot of vertical padding which may cause various issues (like the one you described). There have been multiple bug-reports about this, for example: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340623
Another workaround for your problem is to use the snap to corners feature and snap the settings windows to the left part of the screen, so that it gets automatically resized to vertically fit the screen.
I also think that Breeze is too boxy and I've considered other options. As of today the alternatives are:
Kvantum: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Kv … ent=166241 (but creating a custom theme requires to draw your own svg)
Virtuality: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Vi … ent=165086 (Bespin port to Qt5, still in early stage)
QtCurve (last time I checked it did not have a configuration panel available for Plasma 5 users)
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